The Essential Details of Backgammon Strategies – Part 2

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As we dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and good luck. The goal is to shift your checkers safely around the game board to your inner board and at the same time your opposition shifts their chips toward their inner board in the opposite direction. With opposing player pieces shifting in opposite directions there is going to be conflict and the need for particular strategies at particular times. Here are the 2 final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.

The Priming Game Strategy

If the goal of the blocking plan is to slow down the opponent to move their chips, the Priming Game plan is to completely stop any movement of the opponent by creating a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The competitor’s chips will either get bumped, or result a damaged position if he/she ever tries to escape the wall. The ambush of the prime can be built anyplace between point two and point 11 in your game board. As soon as you’ve successfully constructed the prime to stop the movement of the opponent, your opponent doesn’t even get a chance to toss the dice, and you move your checkers and toss the dice again. You’ll win the game for sure.

The Back Game Strategy

The objectives of the Back Game tactic and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to harm your competitor’s positions in hope to better your chances of succeeding, however the Back Game technique relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is often utilized when you are far behind your opponent. To compete in Backgammon with this strategy, you need to control two or more points in table, and to hit a blot (a single checker) late in the game. This strategy is more complex than others to use in Backgammon because it needs careful movement of your chips and how the checkers are relocated is partly the outcome of the dice toss.